06-10-2002
Modify your system init script to check quota and turn quota on at boot time
# Check quota and then turn quota on.
if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotacheck ]
then
echo "Checking quotas. This may take some time."
/usr/sbin/quotacheck -avug
echo " Done."
fi
if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotaon ]
then
echo "Turning on quota."
/usr/sbin/quotaon -avug
fi
The golden rule is that always turn quota on after your file systems in /etc/fstab have been mounted, otherwise quota will fail to work. I recommend turning quota on at the end of your system init script, or, if you like, right after the part where file systems are mounted in your system init script.
Also try # repquota -a
Repquota produces a summarized quota information for a file system.
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quotaon
QUOTAON(8) System Manager's Manual QUOTAON(8)
NAME
quotaon, quotaoff - turn filesystem quotas on and off
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/quotaon [ -vugfp ] [ -F format-name ] filesystem...
/sbin/quotaon [ -avugfp ] [ -F format-name ]
/sbin/quotaoff [ -vugp ] [ -x state ] filesystem...
/sbin/quotaoff [ -avugp ]
DESCRIPTION
quotaon
quotaon announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more filesystems. The filesystem quota files must be present
in the root directory of the specified filesystem and be named either aquota.user (for version 2 user quota), quota.user (for version 1
user quota), aquota.group (for version 2 group quota), or quota.group (for version 1 group quota).
XFS filesystems are a special case - XFS considers quota information as filesystem metadata and uses journaling to provide a higher level
guarantee of consistency. There are two components to the XFS disk quota system: accounting and limit enforcement. Except in the case of
the root filesystem, XFS filesystems require that quota accounting be turned on at mount time. It is possible to enable and disable limit
enforcement on any XFS filesystem after quota accounting is already turned on. The default is to turn on both accounting and enforcement.
The XFS quota implementation does not maintain quota information in user-visible files, but rather stores this information internally.
quotaoff
quotaoff announces to the system that the specified filesystems should have any disk quotas turned off.
OPTIONS
quotaon
-a All automatically mounted (no noauto option) non-NFS filesystems in /etc/fstab with quotas will have their quotas turned on. This
is normally used at boot time to enable quotas.
-v Display a message for each filesystem where quotas are turned on.
-u Manipulate user quotas. This is the default.
-g Manipulate group quotas.
-p Instead of turning quotas on just print state of quotas (ie. whether. quota is on or off)
-f Make quotaon behave like being called as quotaoff.
quotaoff
-F format-name
Report quota for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold (version 1 quota),
vfsv0 (version 2 quota), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)
-a Force all filesystems in /etc/fstab to have their quotas disabled.
-v Display a message for each filesystem affected.
-u Manipulate user quotas. This is the default.
-g Manipulate group quotas.
-p Instead of turning quotas off just print state of quotas (ie. whether. quota is on or off)
-x delete
Free up the space used to hold quota information (maintained internally) within XFS. This option is only applicable to XFS, and is
silently ignored for other filesystem types. It can only be used on a filesystem with quota previously turned off.
-x enforce
Switch off limit enforcement for XFS filesystems (perform quota accounting only). This option is only applicable to XFS, and is
silently ignored for other filesystem types.
XFS EXAMPLES
Turning on quotas on a non-root XFS filesystem
Use mount(8) or /etc/fstab option quota to enable both accounting and limit enforcement. quotaon utility cannot be used for this purpose.
Turning on quotas on an XFS root filesystem
Use quotaon -v /, and reboot(8). This procedure will enable both accounting and limit enforcement.
Turning off quota limit enforcement on any XFS filesystem
Make sure that quota accounting and enforcement are both turned on using repquota -s. Use quotaoff -vo to disable limit enforcement. This
may be done while the filesystem is mounted.
Turning on quota limit enforcement on any XFS filesystem
Make sure that quota accounting is turned on using repquota -s. Use quotaon -v. This may be done while the filesystem is mounted.
FILES
aquota.user or aquota.group
quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
quota.user or quota.group
quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
/etc/fstab default filesystems
SEE ALSO
quotactl(2), fstab(5), repquota(8).
4th Berkeley Distribution QUOTAON(8)